Google and more giant tech brands are joining forces to encourage black women programmers and technology entrepreneurs to hone their skills and acquire venture capital investment.​

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Seeking to change the face of the tech sector — which is overwhelmingly young, male and white —the coming Focus 100 symposium, soon to be held in New York City, will bring together brilliant minds of all backgrounds.​

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Eighty percent of the speakers at the October 4-6 symposium will be comprised of women and people of color, a complete reversal of the typical depiction of the technology field.

Typical tech conferences are often described as homogeneously white, male and hostile towards those outside this demographic.

Just days ago a controversy erupted over these issues in Silicon Valley. In early September, the world famous conference Disrupt, hosted by the seminal blog TechCrunch, opened with a demonstration for an app called “Titstare” – yes, an app for oggling women’s breasts.

What seemed like a great joke to the largely straight, white, male audience resulted in a web-wide backlash that validated rampant complaints of sexism and myopia in tech-related environments.

Especially the part about smug, contemptuous Silicon Valley, where prolly 80% of all high-tech firms are located, pay HUMUNGOUS salaries to their (white male) employees and "complain" that they can't find "qualified" blacks so they RECRUIT at India universities for tech workers (cheap - they pay the Indians 75% of whites' salaries.... and it's LEGAL since they set them up with 7 year visas).

Anyone invested in that career should invest $300 to get to at least network with like-minded blacks and, especially, with reps from the biggies in their field. Paying $200 for a pair of sneakers lays waste to the "poverty" excuse.